13 shot dead inside bar in Mexico
April 22nd, 2012 - 11:43 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), April 22 (IANS/EFE) At least 13 people were gunned down and four wounded in an attack by suspected cartel gunmen at a bar in the northern Mexican ... Read more...
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Nine gunned down at Mexican nightclub
February 5th, 2012 - 12:16 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen killed nine people, including five musicians, and wounded 11 at a nightclub in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, authorities said.The incident occurred ... Read more...
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Four die in Mexico prison fight
January 30th, 2012 - 11:38 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Jan 30 (IANS/EFE) Four inmates were killed and seven wounded in a fight at the Aquiles Serdan prison in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, state officials ... Read more...
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Mexican cops give six-year-old a traffic citation
January 13th, 2012 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Jan 13 (IANS/EFE) Traffic police personnel in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez gave a six-year-old boy a citation after he crashed his toy motorcycle into an ... Read more...
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Mexican women’s rights activist shot at
December 4th, 2011 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 4 (IANS/EFE) A group of gunmen shot at a women's rights activist in this northern Mexican border city, civil society groups said.Norma Andrade, one of the ... Read more...
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Six mutilated bodies found in Mexico
September 12th, 2011 - 11:16 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Sep 12 (IANS/EFE) The mutilated bodies of six people, including two women, were found in a Mexican city, prosecutors said.The incident took place in Ciudad Madera, a ... Read more...
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`Ugly Betty’ actress weds filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams
June 29th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, June 29 (IANS/EFE) America Ferrera, the actress who played the leading character in the television series "Ugly Betty," has married filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, her long-time boyfriend, ... Read more...
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Mexican city fires 400 cops
May 20th, 2011 - 11:19 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), May 20 (IANS/EFE) Some 400 police officers in this Mexican city have been dismissed since last October on suspicion they had ties to organised crime, Mayor Hector ... Read more...
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5 killed in attack on Mexican bar
April 3rd, 2011 - 11:01 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), April 3 (IANS/EFE) Five people were killed and three were wounded in an attack on a bar in this Mexican city, authorities said.Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the ... Read more...
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NGOs want legal provisions targeting women’s killings in Mexico
March 10th, 2011 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, March 10 (IANS/EFE) More than 100 civic groups have called on Mexico's Congress and state governments to classify slaying of women under a separate category that recognises them ... Read more...
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Funeral home attacked with fire bombs in Mexico
March 2nd, 2011 - 11:44 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), March 2 (IANS/EFE) A funeral home in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez city was attacked with fire bombs and gunfire while relatives and friends mourned a man killed several ... Read more...
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Mexican border city officials seek ban on video game
February 24th, 2011 - 10:53 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Feb 24 (IANS/EFE) The mayor of Ciudad Juarez city in Mexico has said he would ask that a video game set in this gritty border metropolis be banned.Action should ... Read more...
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Singer shot at during robbery in Mexican city
February 23rd, 2011 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) Feb 23 (IANS/EFE) A member of popular musical band Caballo Dorado was shot by several men who robbed him in Ciudad Juarez city of Mexico, police said.Eduardo Gameros was ... Read more...
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Gunmen attack funeral procession in Mexican city
February 17th, 2011 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Feb 17 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen opened fire on the funeral procession for a teenager killed earlier this week in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, wounding a police officer, police ... Read more...
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Cold wave kills 34 animals at Mexican zoo
February 6th, 2011 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) At least 34 animals, including two crocodiles and a monkey, died at a zoo in Chihuahua state from the cold wave that have affected northern Mexico ... Read more...
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Accused of rape, Mexican singer held in US
January 22nd, 2011 - 11:43 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Jan 22 (IANS/EFE) A Mexican singer, accused of raping a teenaged girl in Quintana Roo state, has been arrested by US authorities just across the border in Texas and ... Read more...
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Five bullet-riddled bodies found on Mexican highway
December 31st, 2010 - 11:51 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 31 (IANS/EFE) Five bullet-riddled bodies were found on a rural highway in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, officials said.Residents of the town of Sainapuchi notified police Wednesday ... Read more...
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Mexican city’s lone police officer kidnapped
December 28th, 2010 - 11:50 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 28 (IANS/EFE) The only police officer in Guadalupe, a border town in northern Mexico, was kidnapped last week, authorities said.Erika Gandara was abducted Thursday by gunmen from her ... Read more...
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Doctor shot dead in Mexican city
December 24th, 2010 - 12:13 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen shot dead a doctor outside his house in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez city, authorities said.Alfonso Perez Dominguez was killed Wednesday as he got into his car ... Read more...
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Mexican judge hands down country’s first life sentence
December 23rd, 2010 - 1:26 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) A judge in the northern state of Chihuahua imposed Mexico's first sentence of life in prison, the state Attorney General's Office said.Alfredo Cruz Guzman, 18, found ... Read more...
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4 killed during football game in Mexican city
December 23rd, 2010 - 12:22 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 23 (IANS/EFE) Four people, including two minors, were shot dead and another was wounded while playing soccer in this Mexican city, authorities said.The attack was perpetrated Tuesday afternoon ... Read more...
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Mexican woman killed while seeking justice for slain daughter
December 18th, 2010 - 12:05 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) A Mexican woman who spent the last two years demanding justice for her slain daughter was fatally shot while picketing in front of government offices in ... Read more...
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Extortionists torch school in Mexican border city
December 7th, 2010 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Dec 7 (IANS/EFE) Extortionists set fire to a school in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez after the institute's owners reportedly refused to pay protection money, authorities said.The ... Read more...
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Mexican drug gang kills woman who took police chief job men didn’t want
December 2nd, 2010 - 2:52 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 2 (ANI): The unending war between gangsters and the authorities in Mexico has led to a female police chief, who took on the job because men didn't want it, being ... Read more...
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3 men gunned down at Mexican hospital
October 13th, 2010 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Oct 13 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen murdered three men at a hospital in Ciudad Juarez, the most violent city in Mexico, police said.The killings occurred just after midnight Sunday at a ... Read more...
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Mexican psychiatrists seek psychological treatment in US
September 29th, 2010 - 9:53 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Sep 29 (IANS/EFE) The recent wave of extortion and kidnappings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's murder capital, has forced hundreds of psychiatrists to cross the border to the US to receive ... Read more...
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Gunmen rob police in Mexico
September 28th, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Sep 28 (IANS/EFE) Gunmen stormed a police headquarters in the northern Mexico and escaped with around 70 firearms, officials said.
The criminals took assault rifles, pistols and tactical equipment from the ... Read more...
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US grants political asylum to Mexican reporter
September 23rd, 2010 - 11:40 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Sep 23 (IANS/EFE) Jorge Luis Aguirre, a Mexican journalist who said he got death threats from authorities in his country, has been granted political asylum in the US, the ... Read more...
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Over 2,000 killed in Mexican border city in 2010
September 2nd, 2010 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Sep 2 (IANS/EFE) Over 2,000 people were killed in gang wars
in 2010 in Mexico's "murder capital" of Ciudad Juarez on the border with the US, reveal official figures.A total ... Read more...
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Mexican teachers get training to deal with shootings
August 8th, 2010 - 12:12 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Aug 7 (IANS/EFE) Teachers in this crime-ridden Mexican border city are receiving special training from police in how to react when shootings occur in or near schools, officials said.
The ... Read more...
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Mexico wants US probe after boy’s death in shooting
June 9th, 2010 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), June 9 (IANS/EFE) Mexico has asked the US to conduct a probe into the death of a 14-year-old Mexican boy in a shooting on the Mexico-US border.
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Six policemen killed in Mexico ambush
April 24th, 2010 - 6:58 am ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), April 24 (DPA) Six police officers and one civilian were killed Friday in an ambush in the centre of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico.
Four federal police officers died at ... Read more...
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Mexico’s Juarez violence is a shared responsibility: Calderon
March 17th, 2010 - 5:59 am ICT by BNO News
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) -- After condemning the killings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez on Saturday, Mexican President Felipe Calderón said on Tuesday that Mexico and ... Read more...
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FBI joins probe of US citizens shot dead in Mexico
March 16th, 2010 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), March 16 (IANS/EFE) The FBI will take part in the investigation into three people linked to the US Consulate being killed last weekend in this border city near ... Read more...
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Six killed, five injured after gun attack at wake in Mexico’s Juarez
March 13th, 2010 - 2:35 am ICT by BNO News
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (BNO NEWS) -- At least six people were killed, including a woman, when hitmen stormed into a wake on late Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, officials said on Friday.
At least ... Read more...
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